Obama Gets Three-Point Convention Bounce  —  Now leads Romney by six percentage points, 50% to 44%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama got a modest bump in support immediately after last week's Democratic National Convention, with 50% of registered voters now saying they would vote …

Ten takeaways from the new Post/ABC poll  —  1) President Obama appears to have received a large post-convention bounce.  In the last Post/ABC poll, published Aug. 27, Mitt Romney was leading Obama among registered voters 47 percent to 46 percent.  In the newest poll, Obama leads 50 percent to Romney's 44 percent, a seven point swing.

The Kerry-ization of Mitt Romney  —  Mitt Romney is getting the full John Kerry treatment on national security — and some top Republicans are alarmed by what they see as his ham-handed response to it.  —  Romney — whose convention speech didn't include a salute to the troops or a reference to Afghanistan …

GOP to Mitt Romney: You're so vague  —  Leading conservatives are offering blunt advice to Mitt Romney: Quit ducking details, start engaging in a real and specific war of ideas with President Barack Obama — or lose.  —  Here's just a sampling of the past 24 hours:

Obama's Plan To Use National Security To Beat Romney  —  Obama's decision to play offense on foreign policy marks a “real, significant shift” in our politics, says an Obama advisor.  Just another “shiny object,” a Romneyite fires back.  —  One of the most aggressive parts …

Poll: 47% of Chicago registered voters support teachers in strike  —  Just under half of Chicago's registered voters support the Chicago Public Teachers strike in a 500 person poll taken Monday, and nearly three-quarters of those polled say Mayor Rahm Emanuel is doing an average, below average or poor job in handing the labor dispute.